Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Malaria: e1000209

[...]these studies are difficult to compare and impossible to synthesize globally. Records of the presence or absence of a DVS at a particular site and on a particular date were entered into the database so that information collected at different times from a locality was documented. Because abundan...

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Published in:PLoS medicine 2010-02, Vol.7 (2)
Main Authors: Hay, Simon I, Sinka, Marianne E, Okara, Robi M, Kabaria, Caroline W, Mbithi, Philip M, Tago, Carolynn C, Benz, David, Gething, Peter W, Howes, Rosalind E, Patil, Anand P, Temperley, William H, Bangs, Michael J, Chareonviriyaphap, Theeraphap, Elyazar, Iqbal RF, Harbach, Ralph E, Hemingway, Janet, Manguin, Sylvie, Mbogo, Charles M, Rubio-Palis, Yasmin, Godfray, H CharlesJ
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Language:English
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Malaria
Parasites
Scholarships & fellowships
Statistical methods
Taxonomy
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Summary:[...]these studies are difficult to compare and impossible to synthesize globally. Records of the presence or absence of a DVS at a particular site and on a particular date were entered into the database so that information collected at different times from a locality was documented. Because abundance data have not been reported using methods that can be readily standardized across entomological surveys, only presence and absence data were used to generate the maps.\n It is clear that subregional ecological diversity, coupled with the behavioural plasticity of many DVS, will require that any maps, and associated bionomics information provided, be interpreted and acted on cautiously with local expert knowledge.
ISSN:1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000209